Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness

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Read the stories of

• Joan of Arc,
• Susanna Wesley,
• Hannah More,
• Sister Maria of Paris,
• Corrie ten Boom,
• Rosa Parks,
• and Mother Teresa!
• In this highly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of the greatest women who ever lived, each of whom changed the course of history by following Gods call upon their livesnow in paperback.

Teenaged Joan of Arc followed Gods call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyrs death. Susanna Wesley had nineteen children and gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn writer, her sons John and Charles. Corrie ten Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. And Rosa Parkss deep sense of justice and unshakable dignity and faith helped launch the twentieth-centurys greatest social movement.

Writing in his trademark conversational and engaging style, Eric Metaxas reveals how the extraordinary women profiled here achieved their greatness, inspiring readers to lives guided by a call beyond themselves

Author Bio

Eric Metaxas is a bestselling author whose biographies, children's books, and works of popular apologetics have been translated into multiple languages around the world. He has been frequently featured as a cultural commentator on CNN and the Fox News Channel and has been featured on many radio programs, including NPR's Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation, The Hugh Hewitt Show, and The Bob Grant Show.